UNDULY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unduly mean? 

• UNDULY (adverb)
  The adverb UNDULY has 1 sense:

1. to an undue degree

  Familiarity information: UNDULY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDULY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To an undue degree

Context example:

she was unduly pessimistic about her future

Pertainym:

undue (not yet payable)

 Context examples 

I had been unduly excited by the adventure of the tree, and sleep seemed to be impossible.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In addition, self-evaluation is unduly influenced by body image.

(Bulimia, NCI Thesaurus)

"An unduly long summer," would have been his thought had he thought about it; as it was, he merely missed the snow in a vague, subconscious way.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She was stung by his words into realization of the puerility of her act, and yet she felt that he had magnified it unduly and was consequently resentful.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I am a London University man, you know, and I am sure that you will not think that I am unduly singing my own praises if I say that my student career was considered by my professors to be a very promising one.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a token that he was harking back through his own life to the lives of his forebears; for he was a civilized dog, an unduly civilized dog, and of his own experience knew no trap and so could not of himself fear it.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I took advantage of the opportunity, and told her that my old master, Van Helsing, the great specialist, was coming to stay with me, and that I would put her in his charge conjointly with myself; so now we can come and go without alarming her unduly, for a shock to her would mean sudden death, and this, in Lucy's weak condition, might be disastrous to her.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She was confused, but not unduly so.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In order to face the constant danger of hurt and even of destruction, his predatory and protective faculties were unduly developed.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He was not unduly egotistic.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)